Another List!

This is the beginning of my reading list for next year, cheap because I have all of the books listed so I don't need to buy any more for a few weeks, but then when did the fact that I don't need to, ever stop me? (There are a couple that aren't in print yet but that won't stop me either :p)

Fiction

• Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling


• Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre


• The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl


• The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl


• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova


• At The Mountains of Madness by H P Lovecraft (Omnibus 1)


• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys


• Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson


• Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol


• Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay


• Rapscallion by James McGee


• Hinterland by James Clemens


• Shadow Fall by James Clemens


• Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews

Non Fiction/Biography

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang


• Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser


• Marley and Me by John Grogan


• Dear Fatty by Dawn French


• That's Another Story: The Autobiography by Julie Waters


• Pendragon: The True Story of Arthur by Steve Blake


• The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch

Classics

• The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens


• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas


• Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K Jerome


• Don Quixote by Cervantes


• Louise de Valliere by Alexandre Dumas


• Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini


• The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas


• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas


• The Iliad by Homer


• The Odyssey by Homer


• The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas


• The Vicomte de Bragellone by Alexandre Dumas


• Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I will write a post soon about me, family, dogs, what's on tv, what I overheard on the bus who knows... and it won't include books, I promise!

75 Books Challenge for 2009 on LibraryThing

From Calliope's Coffee House

I intend starting this challenge from January 1st and if I run true to form I hope I'll be reading more than 75 books next year. Anyway, I will endeavour to write reviews of all the books I read be they good or bad (the books that is not my reviews, though... nevermind).

I've been reading what other challengers have been saying, and they seem so organized with lists of what they intend to read and so on... me I'm more of the, pick up a book and read it if I feel like it, persuasion. I do have some rules though, whether I break them or keep them remains to be seen.

• Read at least 10 non fiction books


• Read at least 10 classics


• Read at least 10 biographies/autobiographies

Those are my rules, not too onerous I believe.

I've linked this blog to the LibraryThing group for the challenge so if anyone is interested in seeing what everyone else is doing then just click on the title. (If you're not a member of LT you may have to join to see I'm not sure, it's free though and who knows you might get hooked like thousands of others have).

Right, time to go and make a cup of tea and look at my TBR mountain. Wish I'd asked for crampons for Christmas.